"While mitigation and adaptation efforts have expanded substantially in the last four years, they do not yet approach the scale considered necessary to avoid substantial damages to the economy, environment, and human health over the coming decades.”

Googler: Climate change is a hoaxGoogle: 943859324723 results that climate change is NOT a hoaxGoogler: "Climate change is a hoax"Google: 1 result foundGoogler: I knew it!

Now, s/Googler/Trump, and you have our current reality.

To put it another way.

You go to 100 oncologists. 99 say you have cancer and require immediate treatment or you'll die. 1 tells you you don't have cancer and will be just fine if you do nothing. Further, that last one has connections to competing interests such as homeopathy.

I've been watching some awesome videos by Issac Arthur on YouTube. His videos have revolved around technology to colonize space. That can't come soon enough. When this planet becomes uninhabitable we'll need new living spaces. Hopefully, when those space colonies come online, Trump and his ilk can have their own rotating cylinders complete with coal plants (because fuck solar panels).

I've been watching some awesome videos by Issac Arthur on YouTube. His videos have revolved around technology to colonize space. That can't come soon enough. When this planet becomes uninhabitable we'll need new living spaces. Hopefully, when those space colonies come online, Trump and his ilk can have their own rotating cylinders complete with coal plants (because fuck solar panels).

That is a lovely dream. I wish we had off world colonies. But remember no matter what we do to this planet it will still be far more hospitable to our life than any other body in the solar system. We could have a total nuclear war here and Earth would still be more hospitable than Mars.

Googler: Climate change is a hoaxGoogle: 943859324723 results that climate change is NOT a hoaxGoogler: "Climate change is a hoax"Google: 1 result foundGoogler: I knew it!

Now, s/Googler/Trump, and you have our current reality.

To put it another way.

You go to 100 oncologists. 99 say you have cancer and require immediate treatment or you'll die. 1 tells you you don't have cancer and will be just fine if you do nothing. Further, that last one has connections to competing interests such as homeopathy.

This isn’t “burying” a report. This is denying the conclusions of a report. It’s also bad but for different reasons.

They put it out on a day most people are distracted shopping the incredible V A L U E S at the local big box store, and/or are in a diabetic coma due to eating too much pie the day before. It's absolutely burying.

I've been watching some awesome videos by Issac Arthur on YouTube. His videos have revolved around technology to colonize space. That can't come soon enough. When this planet becomes uninhabitable we'll need new living spaces. Hopefully, when those space colonies come online, Trump and his ilk can have their own rotating cylinders complete with coal plants (because fuck solar panels).

The only ones who get to escape (if any) will be the same ones who caused this mess. The rest of us get to stay here and burn.

I've been watching some awesome videos by Issac Arthur on YouTube. His videos have revolved around technology to colonize space. That can't come soon enough. When this planet becomes uninhabitable we'll need new living spaces. Hopefully, when those space colonies come online, Trump and his ilk can have their own rotating cylinders complete with coal plants (because fuck solar panels).

The tragic part is the culprits of it(Trump alongside the 1%- and their decendents), are the first ones that will be placing those colonies, leaving the remaining 99% to live hell on the planet. That it is why they do not care about it.

If it were still the middle of the last Ice Age, reports like this would still warn of the doomsday consequences of an impending increase of several degrees in world temperature, and commenters on Ars would speculate on the coming extinction of humanity.

I'm hoping that someday the people doing this coverup BS are charged with crimes against humanity. Because it is that scale we are dealing with.

THEY WILL. Unfortunately it will be like charging nazi war criminals nowadays. They would have lived a full life and got arrested many years from now, at age 90, and died of natural causes before sentencing.

If it were still the middle of the last Ice Age, reports like this would still warn of the doomsday consequences of an impending increase of several degrees in world temperature, and commenters on Ars would speculate on the coming extinction of humanity.

This isn’t “burying” a report. This is denying the conclusions of a report. It’s also bad but for different reasons.

They put it out on a day most people are distracted shopping the incredible V A L U E S at the local big box store, and/or are in a diabetic coma due to eating too much pie the day before. It's absolutely burying.

The government releasing news on any Friday is generally an attempt to bury, much less Black Friday.

I've been watching some awesome videos by Issac Arthur on YouTube. His videos have revolved around technology to colonize space. That can't come soon enough. When this planet becomes uninhabitable we'll need new living spaces. Hopefully, when those space colonies come online, Trump and his ilk can have their own rotating cylinders complete with coal plants (because fuck solar panels).

To paraphrase Bill Nye: we can't even take care of a planet, but we're gonna colonize space? Ha!

I've been watching some awesome videos by Issac Arthur on YouTube. His videos have revolved around technology to colonize space. That can't come soon enough. When this planet becomes uninhabitable we'll need new living spaces. Hopefully, when those space colonies come online, Trump and his ilk can have their own rotating cylinders complete with coal plants (because fuck solar panels).

The only ones who get to escape (if any) will be the same ones who caused this mess. The rest of us get to stay here and burn.

Its a depressing through when the most beneficial action Trump can make for future generations is to hurry up and drop dead.

I've been watching some awesome videos by Issac Arthur on YouTube. His videos have revolved around technology to colonize space. That can't come soon enough. When this planet becomes uninhabitable we'll need new living spaces. Hopefully, when those space colonies come online, Trump and his ilk can have their own rotating cylinders complete with coal plants (because fuck solar panels).

To paraphrase Bill Nye: we can't even take care of a planet, but we're gonna colonize space? Ha!

I've been watching some awesome videos by Issac Arthur on YouTube. His videos have revolved around technology to colonize space. That can't come soon enough. When this planet becomes uninhabitable we'll need new living spaces. Hopefully, when those space colonies come online, Trump and his ilk can have their own rotating cylinders complete with coal plants (because fuck solar panels).

Sorry to burst your bubble, but without the support of the economy represented by several hundred million people back on earth, any space endevour is simply not possible.

I've been watching some awesome videos by Issac Arthur on YouTube. His videos have revolved around technology to colonize space. That can't come soon enough. When this planet becomes uninhabitable we'll need new living spaces. Hopefully, when those space colonies come online, Trump and his ilk can have their own rotating cylinders complete with coal plants (because fuck solar panels).

The only ones who get to escape (if any) will be the same ones who caused this mess. The rest of us get to stay here and burn.

Its a depressing through when the most beneficial action Trump can make for future generations is to hurry up and drop dead.

He's a fat old man with fast food addiction and probably a drug problem judging by his performances at his rallies.

I've been watching some awesome videos by Issac Arthur on YouTube. His videos have revolved around technology to colonize space. That can't come soon enough. When this planet becomes uninhabitable we'll need new living spaces. Hopefully, when those space colonies come online, Trump and his ilk can have their own rotating cylinders complete with coal plants (because fuck solar panels).

I assume you can do the math and therefore realize that "we" will never colonize space (if by we you mean all 6 billion of us, most of whom don't even have toilets or clean water yet, and who weigh, in the aggregate, 600 billion pounds, requiring over 16 million Falcon Heavy launches to carry to Mars (but if they insist on bringing along food, water, and building materials and heavy equipment for their destination that rapidly spirals up to what, maybe the better part of a billion launches?

I've been watching some awesome videos by Issac Arthur on YouTube. His videos have revolved around technology to colonize space. That can't come soon enough. When this planet becomes uninhabitable we'll need new living spaces. Hopefully, when those space colonies come online, Trump and his ilk can have their own rotating cylinders complete with coal plants (because fuck solar panels).

To paraphrase Bill Nye: we can't even take care of a planet, but we're gonna colonize space? Ha!

I've been watching some awesome videos by Issac Arthur on YouTube. His videos have revolved around technology to colonize space. That can't come soon enough. When this planet becomes uninhabitable we'll need new living spaces. Hopefully, when those space colonies come online, Trump and his ilk can have their own rotating cylinders complete with coal plants (because fuck solar panels).

To paraphrase Bill Nye: we can't even take care of a planet, but we're gonna colonize space? Ha!

Can't destroy the biosphere of a dead world.

The biosphere won't be dead (unless there's a nuclear strike or two) but it won't be human-friendly.

There will still be plenty of flora and fauna around. Humans will just be a very small part of it.